Editorial: Strengthening Manuscript Submissions

M. Kathleen Heid and Glendon W. Blume

Over the past 3 years, we have had the privilege of reading submissions from
hundreds of authors and analyzing thousands of reviews for those manuscripts.
Many of those manuscripts reported data-driven studies addressing issues that are
vital to mathematics education but were not suitable for publication for a range of
issues related to the design of the study. Based on input from reviewers as well as
her own assessment, it is the formidable responsibility of the editor to craft letters
that would help authors improve those manuscripts. In the spirit of sharing with the
broader readership the kinds of advice offered to authors over the past few years,
we have re-examined those letters and noted patterns in the kinds of issues that
were identified. Although each of these issues is one with which the authors (and
readers) undoubtedly are familiar, we thought it would be useful to share the ways
in which these issues arise in submissions

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